On 16 June in 1976, Soweto students marched in protest against Apartheid inspired non-inclusive education system and were met with a brutal police response. The event made a lasting mark, and the ...

The third Women’s Climate Assembly (WCA) took place recently in Dakar, Senegal, bringing together roughly 150 women activists and community leaders from 14 West and Central African countries. The ...

As they celebrate the Africa Faith and Justice Network's 40th anniversary, the leadership of the Catholic pan-African advocacy organization say they've survived and thrived since 1983 because of the ...

In July 2025, the International Court of Justice held its first hearings on states’ climate responsibilities in decades. A lead judge described climate change as an “urgent and existential threat,” ...

A sign reading “Stop GBV” highlights fight against gender-based violence. [File courtesy] Justice systems across Africa remain inaccessible, costly, and unsafe for most survivors of sexual and ...

A former justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa will be the first international judge to speak at the University of Colorado Boulder Law School’s annual John Paul Stevens Lecture on ...

At the close of an inaugural summit on climate change hosted this week by the African Union and the government of Kenya, activists who had demanded more than carbon credits and other glossy solutions ...

Nicholas Munyai, Portfolio Head, IJS. Remarkable strides have been made in the quest towards an effective South African justice system since the technology visions of some 30 years ago – an era of ...

Hours after allegations surfaced on Tuesday that South Africa‘s former justice minister Thembi Simelane lived far above her means while on a mayor’s salary, President Cyril Ramaphosa issued a ...

Justice systems across Africa remain inaccessible, costly, and unsafe for most survivors of sexual and gender-based violence (GBV), effectively denying women and girls legal redress despite decades of ...